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21481 [lbo-talk] Hardening divide -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >The widely held view that the US-Europe rift is only a temporary one which >will disappear with the Bush administration looks to be wrong, according to >the latest Economist. Years ago, I read a letter to the editor in The Economist that asserted that magazine's principal virtue is that it offers tomorrow's conventional wisdom today. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 19 09:24:08 PDT 2004

21482 [lbo-talk] "I killed innocent people for our government" -- rank: 1000

Sacramento Bee - May 16, 2004 Atrocities in Iraq: 'I killed innocent people for our government' By Paul Rockwell -- Special to The Sacramento Bee "We forget what war is about, what it does to those who wage it and those who suffer from it. Those who hate war the most, I have often found, are veterans who know it." - Chris Hedges, New York Times reporter and author of "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" For nearly 12 years, Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey was a hard-core, some say ...

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Date:	Wed May 19 06:21:48 PDT 2004

21483 [lbo-talk] Ralph @ CFR -- rank: 1000

Ralph Nader will be appearing at the Council on Foreign Relations next Monday. Fascinating. Report to follow... Doug

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Date:	Tue May 18 14:07:24 PDT 2004

21484 [lbo-talk] journalists report abuse -- rank: 1000

Reuters, NBC Staff Abused by U.S. Troops in Iraq By Andrew Marshall BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces beat three Iraqis working for Reuters and subjected them to sexual and religious taunts and humiliation during their detention last January in a military camp near Falluja, the three said Tuesday. The three first told Reuters of the ordeal after their release but only decided to make it public when the U.S. military said there was no evidence they had been abused, and following the exposure of sim ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 12:23:50 PDT 2004

21485 [lbo-talk] looking back -- rank: 1000

A friend supplied this quote from Hitch, chastising the antiwar crowd, in Slate, December 2002: >"...many countries maintain secret police forces and inflict torture >on those who disagree.... [R]elatively few states will take >photographs or videos of the gang-rape and torture of a young woman >in a cellar and then deposit this evidence on the family's doorstep. >This eagerness to go the extra mile, as is manifested in Saddam >Hussein's regime, probably requires an extra ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 12:06:05 PDT 2004

21486 [lbo-talk] Re: circles of activism -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"Take the proposal to change the basis of representation in the Senate. >If we were powerful enough to do that there would be no need to do that. > >I think this also applies to various proposals to control campaign >financing." > >but then it follows ( sagely scratching philosophic beard) that if we >were powerful enough to create a social revolution, we wouldn't need >one...huh? You're missing the complexities of Coxian thought. We organ ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 11:54:24 PDT 2004

21487 [lbo-talk] why the US edition of the Guarniad was scrapped -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenyrm.com/000655.html> [...] With a prospectus and prototype in hand, Rusbridger made several trips to New York to meet with specialists in marketing, distribution, printing and packaging. He also met with potential partners and U.S. publishers of magazines with relevant readerships and circulation bases. "We did a lot of serious work," he says. And then, to the disappointment of many, including Blumenthal, it didn't happen. What emerged from two dozen conversations ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 11:49:55 PDT 2004

21488 [lbo-talk] evangelical support for W wavering? -- rank: 1000

Politics - Reuters Iraq War Weakens Bond Between Bush, Evangelicals 2 hours, 40 minutes ago Add Politics - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Nigel Hunt LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Concern among evangelical Christians over the course of the war in Iraq (news - web sites) is opening a crack in their strong bond with President Bush (news - web sites) and the Republican Party, political analysts who track this powerful voting group said. But they caution there are doubts over whether John Kerry (news - web sites) ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 09:56:12 PDT 2004

21489 [lbo-talk] Iowa sociologist fired for labor/abortion comments -- rank: 1000

[making the rounds] Please circulate this t o anyone sympathetic. From Steven Colatrella: I will be notified officially in June that I am going to be fired from Mount Mercy college. Below are the reasons as listed by the Dean of the College in a conversation with my department chair of Sociology, Prof. Mohammad Chaichian. Neither involves teaching or anything academic. One is a possible unfair labor practice since it involves comments I made during negotiations over working conditions while on a ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 09:49:25 PDT 2004

21490 [lbo-talk] First in Nation, Starbucks Workers Form Union -- rank: 1000

From: Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org> To: Infoshop <infoshop-news at infoshop.org> For Immediate Release: May 17, 2004 Industrial Workers of the World Contact: starbucksunion at yahoo.com First in Nation, Starbucks Workers Form Union Baristas Petition for Election New York, NY- Starbucks workers here have organized a union with the Industrial Workers of the World IU/660 and have submitted union cards today to the NLRB for a certification election. The workers are poised to become the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 18 08:12:47 PDT 2004

21491 [lbo-talk] Yahoo! News Story - Indian Investors Pin Market Fall on Gandhi -- rank: 1000

Yahoo!News wrote: >Again, how is it possible to win, if you stay within the nexus of >global capitalism? And just how do you opt out? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 18 08:11:14 PDT 2004

21492 [lbo-talk] More on A.Roy -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Roy is only hogging the spotlight to the extent to which the Left >puts her and other writers on pedestals. The Left has its own echo >chamber where famous writers are continually elevated to the status >of "leader" by our media. Why is it that our "leaders" are writers? >Noam Chomsky has pointed out numerous times that the work he does >could be done by anybody, yet we continue to elevate Chomsky to the >status of left superstar. It's gott ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 08:07:59 PDT 2004

21493 [lbo-talk] job offer -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Mon May 17 14:01:04 PDT 2004

21494 [lbo-talk] Re: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Much of the right's success comes >from saying that they are maintaining the status quo -- keeping things as >they are. Not entirely. Reagan and Thatcher appropriated the language of revolution, and portrayed the left as backward-looking, nostalgic, and frightened of the future. Virginia Postrel even listed our man Tom Frank as an "enemy of the future." Doug

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Date:	Mon May 17 13:13:03 PDT 2004

21495 [lbo-talk] stripping for Big Brother -- rank: 1000

At 12:15 PM -0700 5/17/04, Wired News Daily wrote: > Getting Naked for Big Brother (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT) > http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,63450,00.html/wn_ascii > > People are willing to strip for Uncle Sam and accept surveillance >technologies to protect them from terrorists, though the privacy >invasions won't make them any safer. Kim Zetter interviews the author >of The Naked Crowd.

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Date:	Mon May 17 12:18:28 PDT 2004